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In other words the left behind cruft of previous installations that may still be having an effect on system performance. That said your Mac may be suffering from a lot of installs/uninstalls.
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There are a number of utilities out there that defrag, however I remember hearing that Mac OS included an on the fly built in defragging service a few revisions back, making most defragging utilities a questionable investment.
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If you don't want to replace the drive (an SSD can make any computer seem much faster) then you could try defragging the drive.
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I took a look at the means of upgrading it, but since it involves practically taking the entire thing apart to get to the hard drive, I decided it wasn't something I wanted to do myself. Of late, it's begun to get quite sluggish, and I'm fairly sure it's the slow HDD that's to blame. I have a 2010 Mac Mini with no DVD drive and a 5,400 RPM hard drive.